A Texas man who said his death sentence was based on false and unscientific expert testimony was executed Thursday evening for killing a man during a robbery decades ago.
Brent Ray Brewer, 53, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the April 1990 death of Robert Laminack. The inmate was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m. local time, 15 minutes after the chemicals began flowing.
Prosecutors had said Laminack, 66, gave Brewer and his girlfriend a ride to a Salvation Army location in Amarillo when he was stabbed in the neck and robbed of $140.
Brewer’s execution came hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to step in over the inmate’s claims that prosecutors had relied on false and discredited expert testimony at his 2009 resentencing trial.
A teenager with an AR can kill most of their classmates in 1/10th that time. Are the prison executioners incompetent, or just lazy?
Neither, most chemicals are actual medical drugs manufactured by pharmaceutical companies who don’t consent to their medicine being used to kill people. So prisons aren’t allowed to use them as such or face charges, and that’s that.
So they have to use some homebrew cocktails or overdose prisoners on stuff that isn’t highly lethal, so it takes forever.
As far as I remember, the drugs can’t be legally produced or sold in the US, so they have to be smuggled in from India. But I may be off on the details. Either case, what the fuck.